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Title The German worker : working-class autobiographies from the age of industrialization / translated, edited, and with an introduction by Alfred Kelly
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 438 p., [16] p. of plates )
Contents Karl Fischer, railroad excavator -- Ottilie Baader, seamstress -- Franz Bergg, apprentice waiter -- Wenzel Holek, brickyard worker -- Adelheid Popp, factory worker -- Doris Viersbeck, cook and house maid -- Nikolaus Osterroth, clay miner -- Franz Rehbein, farm worker -- A city man on a farm -- Moritz Bromme, woodworker and metalworker -- A barmaid -- Otto Krille, factory worker -- Ernst Schuchardt, workhouse weaver -- Ludwig Turek, child tobacco worker -- Max Lotz, coal miner -- Frau Hoffmann, retired maid -- Eugen May, turner -- Aurelia Roth, glass grinder -- Fritz Pauk, cigar maker
Summary In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. Behind those facts, in the historical shadows, stand millions of anonymous men and women: the workers who actually put down the railroad ties, hacked out the coal, sewed the shirt collars, printed the books, or carried the bricks that made Germany a great nation. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions. The thirteen men and six women who speak from these pages afford an intimate firsthand look at how massive social and economic changes are reflected on a personal level in the everyday lives of workers. Although some of these autobiographies are familiar to specialists in German labor history, they are virtually unknown and inaccessible to the broader audience they deserve. This book provides translations that are at once useful, interesting, and entertaining to a wide range of historians, students, and general readers
Analysis Working classes Social conditions History
Germany
Bibliography "Suggestions for further reading in English": p. 429-431
Notes Includes index
In English
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Subject Working class -- Germany -- Biography
Working class -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Proletariat -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Working class
Social conditions
Proletariat
Economic history
Arbeidersklasse.
SUBJECT Germany -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054494
Germany -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054654
Subject Germany
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Biographies
History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Kelly, Alfred, 1947-
LC no. 2021697022
ISBN 9780520908499
052090849X
9780520059726
0520059727
9780520061248
0520061241